823008 - Don't send dev.tree-management Talos emails for improvements

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Until datazilla is up and running, I'm stuck with checking dev.tree-management. At the moment, it send emails for both regressions & improvements.

To reduce the noise I propose we stop sending for improvements, given that:
a) Most of the emails are false positives anyway
b) If something causes a regression and then is backed out, we can see the corresponding correction on graphs.m.o without the need for extra emails.

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Attachment: Patch v1

Comment 2

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

How many developers expect to see the improvement notices for changes that should give performance gains? Would the lack of the notices be a surprise for them?

Comment 3

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

I have been closely monitoring the dev.tree-management emails for Android (only, thankfully!) for several months and using them for tracking both regressions and improvements. I can live without the improvement notices, but they are useful to me.

Would it help if we changed the message titles to better distinguish improvements from regressions?

** REGRESSION **
(improvement)

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Sure I guess I could just add that to bug 823016 so it's clearer by default (and for me, filter the improvement emails to trash).